SCIENCE 



Friday, August 28, 1914 



CONTENTS 

 The Address of the President of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence : Dk. William Bateson 287 



Morphology of the Bacteria: Dr. Joseph 

 Leidt 302 



The South African Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science 306 



The Pacific Fisheries Society 306 



The American Chemical Society 307 



Scientific Notes and News 308 



and Educational News 311 



Discussion and Correspondence: — - 



Distinction of the Sexes in Fhrynosoma: 

 W. M. WiNTON. CahoTcia or Monies Mound 

 Not of Artificial Origin: A. E. Crook .... 311 



Scientific Boolcs: — 

 Ishii on the Geology of the Yang-tse Val- 

 ley: Professor Eliot Blackwelder. Drude 

 on the Ecology of Plants: Professor John 

 W. Harshberger. Pearson's Tailes for 

 Statisticians and Biometricians. Mellor's 

 Quantitative Inorganic Analysis: Professor 

 D. J. Demorest 312 



The College Curriculum: Professor E. S. 

 WOODWORTH 315 



Special Articles: — 



On Some Non-specific Factors for the En- 

 trance of the Spermatozoon into the Egg: 

 Professor Dr. Jacques Loeb 316 



MSS. intended for publication and books, etc., intended for 

 review should be sent to Professor J. McKeen Cattell, Garrison- 

 on-Hudson, N. Y. 



ADDRESS OF TEE PBESIDENT OF THE 



BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE^ 



The outstanding feature of this meeting 

 must be the fact that we are here — in 

 Australia. It is the function of a presi- 

 dent to tell the Association of advances in 

 science, to speak of the universal rather 

 than of the particular or the temporary. 

 There will be other opportunities of ex- 

 pressing the thoughts which this event 

 must excite in the dullest heart, but it is 

 right that my first words should take ac- 

 count of those achievements of organiza- 

 tion and those acts of national generosity 

 by which it has come to pass that we are 

 assembled in this country. Let us, too, on 

 this occasion, remember that all the effort, 

 and all the goodwill, that binds Australia 

 to Britain would have been powerless to 

 bring about such a result had it not been 

 for those advances in science which have 

 given man a control of the forces of nature. 

 For we are here by virtue of the feats of 

 genius of individual men of science, giant- 

 variations from the common level of our 

 species ; and since I am going soon to speak 

 of the significance of individual variation, 

 I can not introduce that subject better 

 than by calling to remembrance the line of 

 pioneers in chemistry, in physics, and in 

 engineering, by the working of whose rare — 

 or, if you will, abnormal — intellects a meet- 

 ing of the British Association on this side 

 of the globe has been made physically 

 possible. 



I have next to refer to the loss within 



1 Delivered at Melbourne on August 14. The 

 second part of the address, delivered at Sydney on 

 August 20, will be printed next week. 



